Exhibition - Rothschilds in Caricature

4: 'Die Generalpumpe'

Die Generalpumpe, is a malign force manipulating world events by pumping gold into the grasping hands of statesmen and bankers, while foot-soldiers and innocent citizens suffer below.

This German cartoon from the 1840s shows the degree to which long anti-semitic associations between Jewry and money lending had now taken on a global ‘anti-capitalist’ scale. Though the word Rothschild appears nowhere, the details clearly show them as the target.